The latest album by Espen Sommer Eide (recording as Phonophani) it represents his return to the solo album format itself. After a period of working predominantly in experimental sound or audio art projects and with his long standing partnership with Dag-Are Haugen. Although hardly a conventional 'comeback' album, Animal Imagination does feel like a significant reboot, which occupies a liminal space somewhere between earlier ambient electronica and more recent sound installations: created and exhibited in the context of the art museum or gallery. His approach also suggests a kind of digital primitivism or 'sonic Art Brut' whereby the customary loops, drones and glitches of techno are prized more for the rough patina of their surfaces than they are for any sense of neat cleanliness or 'finish'. It seems to cultivate unsettling juxtapositions and seemingly accidental effects; in order to take the listener far away, from a shiny technological present or sci-fi future into some deep shamanic past. The LP will work away at the edge of your consciousness until some magical transformation takes place.